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V. Gerard (Jerry) Comizio

Professor of Law, American University
V. Gerard (Jerry) Comizio, of American University, teaches courses on U.S. and international banking law, virtual currency law, regulation of financial institutions and business law compliance and ethics.

Professor Comizio is a leading authority on financial services regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters. He had extensive experience in private practice representing a wide range of financial services companies, including both domestic and foreign banking organizations, non-bank financial institutions, online banking, fintech companies, virtual currency exchanges and private equity firms.

Professor Comizio has written extensively about current issues in financial services regulation. He is the author of International Banking Law (West Academic 2016), one of the first major casebooks on international banking law issues. He is also the contributing author to three books on financial services issues: Winning Legal Strategies for Banking Law, Aspatore Books (2005); The Bank Investor Relations Handbook, America’s Community Bankers (2003); and The Bank Founder’s Guidebook, SNL Securities (1999).

Professor Comizio also focuses on the emerging legal regulatory and policy framework governing virtual currency activities and other transformative financial technologies. He currently teaches one of the first virtual currency law courses in the country, which explores the emerging legal and regulatory framework under the corporate, securities, commodities, banking, money transmission, anti-money laundering, fintech, tax, and commercial laws governing virtual currency and block chain activities.

Professor Comizio has written extensively on a wide range of virtual currency law issues including Virtual Currencies: Growing Regulatory Framework and Challenges in the Emerging Fintech Ecosystem}, 21 N.C. Banking Inst. 131 (2017) https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncbi/vol21/iss1/10/, and The cyber threat looming over virtual currencies, American Banker (May 6, 2021). He is also author of Virtual Currency Law: The Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework, Wolters Kluwer (2022), one of the first major casebooks on digital asset law.

Professor Comizio has been featured in the American Banker’s annual “Washington Insider’s Survey of the 25 Most Influential People Involved in Financial Services Regulatory Issues.” He also has regularly appeared on television, internet media, and radio discussing current financial services regulatory issues, including NPR, Fox News, Bloomberg TV, Wall Street Journal Online, Dow Jones Online and CBS radio, and has been widely quoted on financial services issues in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and other major newspapers and publications. He has been consistently recognized by Chambers, Legal 500 and other major law firm practice rankings.

Professor Comizio joined AUWCL from Fried Frank Shriver Harris and Jacobsen LLP, where he was a partner and chaired their banking practice. Prior to that, he was a partner and chaired the banking practice at Paul Hastings LLP, and was managing partner of the DC Office of Thacher Proffit and Wood LLP. Prior to private practice, he was for many years the deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision (currently the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and a senior attorney in the Division of the Corporation Finance in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1994, he led an interagency task force related to the U.S. Senate and House financial services committee hearings held in response to widely publicized abuses in the initial public offering market for bank mutual to stock conversions. This task force was widely credited with initiating comprehensive regulatory reform of this area at the federal and state level.

Professor Comizio has served as a member of the Governing Committee of the U.S. Conference on Consumer Finance Law and the Board of Advisors of the University of North Carolina Law School Center for Banking and Finance. He is also the former chairman of the Trusts and Investments Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law committee and the Advisory Board of the George Washington Law School Center for Law Economics and Finance. He recently served as a member of the Economic Policy team’s Financial Institutions subcommittee for the Biden-Harris campaign.

Professor Comizio received his master’s degree in global policy from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in 2020, his LLM in Financial Services Regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, his JD from the Pace University School of Law in 1980 where he was case and comments editor and his BA from Fordham University in 1977.

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Vahid Vahidinasab

Associate Professor of Power and Energy Systems, Nottingham Trent University
Proactive and solution-driven, I'm an inspiring leader, university professor, and innovator who links people with ideas that empower them to achieve the impossible and unlock their potential. My name is Vahid Vahidinasab and I have over 18 years experience of working in academia and industry both on organisational leadership and also on research in the field of sustainable power and energy systems modelling, operation, management and control as well as their business.

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS
I passionately work on Sustainable Power and Energy Systems with a focus on the development of innovative solutions to empower people and local communities in the transition to a net-zero future and tackle energy poverty worldwide.

I am also experienced in leading Higher Education & Research Institutions and in motivating, managing and driving talents. I have great experience in working with startup companies, SMEs, and large corporations with the privilege to enable advancement in science to support the ideas to flourish and empower people.

MY MISSION
My mission is to create high-impact scientific teams that is able to promote productivity and innovation in science and technology.

MY BIG MAGIC
With a positive attitude, I am passionate about developing creative solutions and strategic decisions for real-world challenges. As an organised, ambitious, and fast learner person with an understanding of others, I am skilled in collaborating inter-institutionally or globally to achieve goals.

MY LIFE-LONG PASSION
It is my passion to contribute to the development of sustainable energy systems of the future by integrating distributed energy resources like wind, PV, storage, and EVs while empowering people to face the uncertainties and risks of this evolution or better to say revolution.

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Vakhtang Mshvildadze

Professeur de Pharmacognosie, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

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Val Ekechukwu

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nigeria
Professor Val Ekechukwu was the former Director, Research & Innovation at the National Universities Commission (NUC). He was a member of the Governing Council at both the Air-force Institute of Technology, Kaduna and the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

He has held numerous international fellowships and is currently undertaking research at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he has taught for over four decades.

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Valentina Di Iasio

Research Fellow, Economics of Migration, University of Southampton
I am an applied economist with an interest in Labour Economics, Development Economics, Economic Geography and Applied Econometrics.

My research is particularly focused on international migration, in particular on the impact of migration on the host and origin countries, migration pull factors, and on the role of diversity and migration on the inter-generational transmission of norms and values.

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Valentina Gosetti

Associate Professor in French and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of New England
I am originally from Collio di Vobarno, a small town of the province of Brescia, in the north of Italy, not far away from Lake Garda. After attending the Liceo “Enrico Fermi” in Salò (BS, Italy), I completed a Diploma di Laurea in French and English languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Bologna (Italy); and then an MSt and a DPhil in French at the University of Oxford (Balliol College). I have been a pensionnaire étrangère at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, rue d’Ulm, and an intern at UNESCO (Headquarters, Paris). Before joining the University of New England (Australia), I held the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College (Oxford, UK).

Currently, I am the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (DE200101206: Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation) funded by the Australian Government.

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Valentina Paz

Assistant Researcher in the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL
Valentina Paz received a degree in Psychology from the University of the Republic (Udelar) in 2014 and in 2018 she obtained a Master's degree in Biological Sciences Neurosciences option from the Basic Sciences Development program (Pedeciba). She is currently studying a specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and a PhD in Biological Sciences option Neurosciences. She is also an Assistant Research in the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL.

She is a member of the work team investigating "Chronobiology" and "Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health" and has coordinated research and development projects studying the relationship between the circadian system and major depressive disorder and the neural basis of social comparisons in people with depression and social anxiety.

Her scientific and professional interests are mainly in the area of ​​experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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Valentina Rossi

Postdoctoral researcher, Palaeontology, University College Cork
I am a palaeobiologist, skilled in the analysis of pigmented soft tissues in fossil and extant vertebrates. A particular focus of my studies is the preservation of melanosomes in fossil vertebrates. My work so far have produced the first report of a tissue-specific chemical signal in melanosomes in extant amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds and the first report of similar chemical signals in fossils, spanning in age between 10 and 280 millions years old. During my PhD I have specialised in the study of metal-melanin associations using synchrotron-based chemical analysis.

My research interest also include the investigation of the taphonomic processes that lead to the preservation of soft tissues and biomolecules using taphonomic experiments at high pressure and temperature.

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Valentina Signorelli

Associate Professor in Film and TV, University of Greenwich
I am a British-Italian creative producer and academic based in London. I hold a PhD Film from the University of Westminster focusing on transmedia practices in the digital era. I am the co-founder of the production studio Daitona and its advertising division, DOGODOT. We make films, documentaries, commercials, TV projects, docu-mapping and VR experiences with a transmedia approach. My works as a writer, director and producer have been distributed internationally and showcased in A-list festivals around the world, including the prestigious Venice Film Festival. I joined the University of Greenwich in January 2024 as an Associate Professor in Film and TV. Before that, I served as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader BA Media and Communication at the University of East London for four years and worked as an Associate Lecturer with many academic institutions, including the University of Westminster, the University for the Creative Arts, Bucks New University, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Sapienza - University of Rome.

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Valentina A. Andreeva

research scientist, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
I obtained a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine in 2008 from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. I am an epidemiologist and a behavioral scientist with expertise in chronic disease epidemiology, neuropsychiatric needs assessment and prevention research, and mental and behavioral health promotion especially via proper nutrition. I am proficient in research methods, health promotion theory, nutrition and mental health assessment, risk factor assessment, and validation research. At Sorbonne Paris Nord University, I have held the tenured position of Associate Professor of Epidemiology since 2013. I co-directed the Master of Human Nutrition & Public Health program from 2015 to 2022. I am an ad hoc grant proposal reviewer, peer reviewer for over two dozen indexed journals, and a member of numerous public health, epidemiology and nutrition non-profit professional organizations. I have published >180 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference proceedings (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/valentina.andreeva.1/bibliography/public/).

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Valeria Skafida

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh
My research interests and expertise straddle the disciplines of social policy, sociology and public health. For my research I use primarily advanced quantitative analysis methods and longitudinal survey data. Most of my research to date has involved using population cohort study data to understand how children’s health and wellbeing outcomes are socially stratified, and how early experiences or events relate to subsequent outcomes. I have dabbled with topics related to infant feeding and children's eating habits, and my more recent work explores the lives of women and children affected by domestic abuse.

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Valérie Erlich

Maîtresse de conférences de sociologie, URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et Société), CNRS, IRD, Université Côte d’Azur
Valérie Erlich est maîtresse de conférences au Département de Sociologie de l’Université Côte d’Azur et chercheure à l’URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et sociétés, CNRS 6, UMR 8245), Membre du comité scientifique de l’Observatoire National de la Vie Etudiante de 2007 à 2012, Directrice de l’Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante de l’Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis de 2003 à 2007.
Depuis les années 1990, ses recherches portent sur le monde étudiant, sur la socialisation des étudiants et la construction des identités étudiantes dans le contexte de massification de l’enseignement supérieur.
A partir de 2005, elle s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux mobilités pour études, à l’analyse statistique des flux des étudiants en mobilité et à l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur.
Elle a publié sur ces thématiques :
- Les nouveaux étudiants. Un groupe social en mutation, Préface de Roger Establet, Paris, Armand Colin, « Références » Sociologie, 1998.
- Les mobilités étudiantes, Panorama des savoirs, Paris, La Documentation française, 2012, 219 p.

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Valerie Fraser

Professor of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Valerie Fraser specialises in the art and architecture of Latin America and Spain with particular emphasis on the early colonial period and the 20th/21st centuries. She is Chair of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA). She has won a number of major awards from the AHRC including funding for a fully-illustrated online catalogue of ESCALA, and is currently overseeing a three-year AHRC-funded research project (2009-2012) entitled Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978 which is in collaboration with the University of the Arts London and investigates artistic relations between Europe and Latin America in the post-war period. She has worked on a number of exhibitions including Kahlo's Contemporaries held at the University Gallery in 2005, and Latin American Art: Contexts and Accomplices at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 2004.

Research interests:
•Colonial Latin American art
•Colonial Latin American architecture
•20th century Latin American art
•20th century Latin American architecture

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Valérie Hémar-Nicolas

Professeure des universités en sciences de gestion et du management - Consommation alimentaire et durabilité, Université Paris-Saclay
Valérie Hémar-Nicolas est Professeure des Universités en sciences de gestion et du management à l’Université Paris-Saclay. Ses recherches portent sur la consommation alimentaire dans une perspective de santé et de durabilité sociale et environnementale. Elle mène ses travaux dans le cadre de projets de recherche nationaux et internationaux (ANR CRI-KEE : Consommation et représentations des insectes - Etat des connaissances sur leur comestibilité en Europe ; Smag For Livet (Taste For Life) financé par la fondation danoise Nordea-Fonden ; ANR MarCO - Marketing to Children and Obesity...).

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Valerie J. Karplus

Valerie J. Karplus is the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with an emphasis on emerging markets and the role of policy. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system, including technology trends, energy system governance, and the sustainability impact of business decisions. She holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a PhD in engineering systems from MIT.

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Valerie Møller

Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University
VALERIE MØLLER is Professor Emeritus at Rhodes University. She was appointed to the new chair of Quality of Life Studies at Rhodes in the Institute of Social and Economic Research in 2007. Before that she was director of ISER (1998–2006) and headed the Quality of Life Research Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, in the 1990s. She grew up in the southern United States and Switzerland. A sociologist by training, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Zürich. She and her architect husband arrived in Africa in 1972 in a VW kombi and stayed. She has lived and worked in southern Africa since that time.

Together with South African colleagues, she initiated the South African Quality of Life (SAQoL) trends study that has tracked the personal well-being of South Africans from all walks of life since the early 1980s. In 1996 and 2004, together with Alex Michalos, editor of the leading international journal on quality-of-life, Social Indicators Research, she organised ‘roving conferences’ to promote social indicators and quality-of-life research among South African scholars. The 2004 ‘Roving Conference’ held at Rhodes University formed part of the University’s Centenary celebrations.

Valerie Møller has published some 200 research articles, chapters in books, and research monographs covering a wide range of topics related to quality of life and well-being. She has edited or co-edited a number of Springer volumes on quality-of-life topics including two focusing on South African quality of life (published in 1997 and 2007).

She is an international Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Distinguished Qol Researcher in recognition of her lifetime achievements and accomplishments in quality-of-life studies. She hosted the ISQOLS 7th conference at Rhodes University in 2006, and served as ISQoL’s President (2007–8). She serves on the boards of a number of quality-of-life journals and received the 1997 (with Lawrence Schlemmer) and 2013 Best Social Indicator Research (SIR) Paper awards. The 2013 Best SIR Paper reported on three decades of the SAQoL trends study.

Recent Publications:
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Møller, V.

2020 in press Preface: A place and a time for a Handbook on Active Ageing and Quality of Life. In: F. Rojo-Pérez. & G. Fernández-Mayoralas G. (Eds.), Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life – From Concepts to Applications. (pp. 1–7) International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Møller, V.

2020 in press Hamba kahle, ‘go well’, from Africa. In: A.C. Michalos (Ed.), The Pope of Happiness - A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. Social Indicators Research Series. Cham, Switzlerland: Springer Nature,

Møller, V.

2019 ‘Foreword’. In Eloff, I. (Ed.) Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies. (pp.v-vii). International Handbooks on Quality of Life. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.

2019 The best and worst times of life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. Social Indicators Research 143(3), 1319-1347. DOI 10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9

Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.

2018 Online appendix: The best and worst times of life for South Africans: evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. (Domains that define the anchors of the ACSA scale of personal well‐being: South Africans’ descriptions of their best and worst experiences in life in 2012). Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67024

Otterbach, S., Sousa-Posa, A., and Møller, V.

2018 A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 9(4), 382–411.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v9i4.509

Barrientos, A., Møller, V., Saboia, J., Lloyd-Sherlock, P. and Mase, J.

2018 Ageing, wellbeing and development: Brazil and South Africa. In: Alan Walker (Ed.), The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1, Bristol UK: Policy Press. (Chapter 15, pp. 307 – 324.)

ISBN 978-1-4473-1473-8 paperback

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D.

2018 The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society. Social Indicators Research 135(1), 167–193.

DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4

Møller, V.

2018 Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years after the Social Indicators Movement'. Social Indicators Research 135 (3):1009–1019.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y

http://rdcu.be/opqP

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J.

2017 ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa. In: John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs (Eds.), World Happiness Report 2017 (Chapter 4, pp. 84–120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HR17-Ch4_w-oAppendix.pdf ISBN 978-0-9968513-5-0

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.

2017 New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In: R.J. Estes and M.J. Sirgy (Eds.), The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History.

(pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7 www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319391007 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J.

2017 South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns. Social Indicators Research 130(1), 39–69.

DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2

https://rdcu.be/6qUp

Møller, V.

2016 South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In:

F. Maggino (Ed.), A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. (pp. 271–295). Social Indicators Research Series 60, Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15 ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7

Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (Eds.).

2015 Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.

ISBN 978-94-017-9177-9, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6

Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J.

2015 Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller,V., and Rojas, M. (eds.), Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life, pp. 531– 568. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6_23

Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D.

2015 The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study. Social Indicators Research 124, 835–862. DOI 10.1007/s11205-014-0820-6

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). “South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns”. Social Indicators Research 130(1): 39-69.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2

Møller, V. (2017). “Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement' “. Social Indicators Research

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y. http://rdcu.be/opqP

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D. (2016). “The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society”. Social Indicators Research.

DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4

Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D. (2015). “The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study”. Social Indicators Research 124: 835–862.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-014-0820-6

Books/Chapters in Books

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J. (2017). “ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa“. In Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (eds). World Happiness Report 2017. (Chapter 4, pp. 84-120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/

Møller, V. and Roberts, B. (2017). “New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa” In Estes, R.J. and Sirgy, M.J. (eds.) The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. (pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4

ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7

Møller, V. (2016). “South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In Maggino, F. (ed.) A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. Social Indicators Research Series 60 (pp. 271–295). Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15

ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7

Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (eds.). (2015). “Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents”. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.

www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779

Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J. (2015). “Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa”. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller, V., and Rojas, M. (eds.) Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life (pp. 531– 568). Dordrecht: Springer.

www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779

Conference presentations

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). Powerpoint presentation on ‘Waiting for Happiness in Africa’ at the World Happiness Report 2017 launch held on 20 March 2017 at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City, in New York, USA.

Møller, V. and Tiliouine, H. (2015). Powerpoint presentation on Quality of life in South Africa and Algeria: A multi-method approach (2011-2013) at the South Africa-Algeria Joint Researchers’ Workshop held on 18-20 October 2015 in the iThemba LAB, Faure, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Valerie Payré

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa
I am a planetary geologist, and my primary research interest is understanding the evolution of planetary bodies, with an emphasis on Mars, to better constrain the geological history of our own planet. My work crosses several disciplines including igneous petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and sedimentology to assess planetary surface and interior evolution and constrain magmatic processes on Mars and other planets.

I use various methods including measurements from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers (ChemCam, SuperCam, APXS, PIXL, and CheMin) and orbital data (CRISM visible/near infrared spectroscopy and TES and THEMIS thermal infrared spectroscopy), modeling, experimental petrology, and laboratory measurements.

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Valerie Tarasuk

Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Valerie Tarasuk is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and leads PROOF, a research program funded by CIHR to investigate policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada.

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Valerie Ann Johnson

Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Shaw University
Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson is the Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, she was the Mott Distinguished Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of Africana Women’s Studies at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco; M.A. in Sociology from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University); and B.A. in Sociology from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Johnson has also completed doula training focused especially on women of color.

Her research conducted in Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, the Seychelles Islands and the US, center on gender, bioethics, disability, the health of women and girls, and environmental justice. In addition, she has published and given lectures in these research areas. In North Carolina, Dr. Johnson conducts research on both African American foodways, and African Americans attitudes toward and experiences with “nature spaces” with special emphasis on Black women’s garden clubs. Her speaking engagements include this work as well as public commentary on the issue of confederate monuments on public lands.

Other scholarly projects include work with Dr. Karima Jeffrey (Hampton University), on a joint collection of essays on the speculative and science fiction work of Black women and girls and with Dr. Crystal Moten (Macalester College), on compiling and editing an interactive, intersectional database on women, gender, and slavery.

Dr. Johnson chairs the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, serves on the North Carolina Historical Commission, National Register Advisory Committee and is member of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) Board of Directors, Scarritt Bennett Center Board of Directors (Nashville, Tennessee), the Ms. Committee of Scholars and an advisor on the Humanities Action Lab’s initiative on climate change, immigration/migration and environmental justice. Dr. Johnson is also active on the board of directors for both NARAL Pro-Choice NC and Preservation North Carolina and serves as an advisory member for Scarritt Bennett Center’s Racial Justice Initiative.

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Valeriia Popova

Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
I work on media-government relationship in the United States, and I teach classes in Comparative Politics and American Politics.

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Valeriy Ivanov

Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, University of Michigan
My research interests aim to uncover interactions, mechanisms and feedbacks among various components of natural and human-impacted systems. My group strives to promote both the development of process-oriented models of water, energy and element cycles at various scales and the integration of data and models. The specific foci are land surface hydrology, ecohydrology, floods and climate impact assessments, with a growing emphasis on uncertainty quantification in all these research domains. In the years to come, we will apply both rigorous computational models and field data collection to better understand: water, energy and carbon dynamics in tropical and polar ecosystems; coupled processes of surface-subsurface hydrology and flooding hydrodynamics in natural and managed environments; and impacts and feedbacks associated with the propagation of climate and weather dynamics through hydrologic systems.

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Vanda Černohorská

Postdoctoral Researcher, Czech Academy of Sciences
Vanda Černohorská, Ph.D., focuses on gender inequalities from an intersectional perspective concerning issues of digitalization, social resilience and the creation of expert knowledge. Currently, she is researching the issue of the production of gender expertise in times of crisis and post-crisis recovery in the CoRe: Beyond Security - Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (OPJAK) project at the National Contact Centre for Gender & Science. She also works at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she researches the impact of digital technologies on the perception of time and wellbeing (Time experience in Europe's digital age - TIMED). In the past years, she explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and related policies on existing gender inequalities as part of the RESISTIRÉ research team or the effect of the European Structural Funds on gender equality in the Czech labour market. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between digital technologies and the contemporary feminist movement in the Czecho-Slovak region. Her other research interests include the issue of qualitative methods and multi-disciplinary approaches within social research and co-creation practices related to gender-sensitive policy design. She was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent 2015/2016 as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.

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Vandana Singh

Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee
Dr. Vandana Singh is a Professor in the iSchool, the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville . Currently, Dr. Singh is serving as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the College of Communication and Information.

Dr. Singh joined the SIS faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. In her time at SIS, Dr. Singh has worked as Information Science and Technology Minor Coordinator (2008 – 2011), Acting Associate Director of SIS (2013) and the inaugurating Director of Undergraduate Studies (May 2017 – April 2019).

Dr. Singh graduated with a PhD in Information Science from the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA, in 2008. Her dissertation research was on Online Communities to Support the Users of Open Source Software. For more details about her research please click here. She holds two masters degrees, one in Computer Science from University of Chicago , Illinois, USA and the other one in Knowledge Management Systems from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her undergraduate degree is from G.B. Pant University, in the foothills of Himalayas in India.

Her current research interests are in Gender and IT, Open Source Software, Technology for Library Professionals, Women in STEM, Rural Libraries, Social Justice, Online Learning/Communities and, Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Dr. Singh teaches the core course in Information Technology, Usability Testing and Methods, Web Design, Information Networking Applications and a wide range of topics as Independent Studies.

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Vanessa Barolsky

Research Associate, Deakin University
Vanessa Barolsky is a Research Associate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She works across several disciplinary areas including sociology, anthropology and criminology to tackle questions related to social conflict and its transformation. This includes critical engagements with social cohesion, truth, reconciliation and questions of justice and decolonisation. Her work is informed by her research in South Africa on political conflict where she worked at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and participated in writing the Commission’s final report. She subsequently completed a PHD on the Truth Commission’s conceptualisation of political conflict. She is currently working on several studies on community truth-telling in Australia with partners, including Reconciliation Australia.

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Vanessa Beck

Professor in Employment Studies, University of Bristol
Vanessa works at the University of Bristol Business School. She gained her degrees from Brunel (BSc), Keele (MPhil) and Birmingham (PhD) and worked at the University of Leicester before joining Bristol.

Vanessa has published on issues relating to older workers; the extension of working lives following the abolishment of the default retirement age; unemployment and underemployment.

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Vanessa Cobham

Dr. Vanessa Cobham is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor, with continuing appointments in both Children’s Health Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service and the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. Dr. Cobham has continuously maintained both clinical and academic appointments, making her a true clinician-researcher. Dr. Cobham is regarded as an international expert in child and adolescent emotional disorders. Her research is characterized by a family-centric, consumer-focused approach to the treatment of youth experiencing mental illness. Dr. Cobham’s research has focused on improving our understanding of the ways in which anxiety and depressive mental health conditions develop; the development and evaluation of models of care and interventions for the treatment of these conditions; understanding the intersection between physical and mental health conditions; and bridging the evidence-practice divide that exists in child and youth mental health. She is also the lead author of internationally disseminated clinical programs. Dr. Cobham has led numerous child and adolescent mental health responses following natural disasters in Australia; and is regularly invited to consult to government agencies in other countries following community-wide traumatic events (e.g., 2020 Nova Scotia shootings, Canada; 2019 Christchurch Mosque Attack, NZ). Often this consultation involves providing training and supervision to clinicians working with children and families.

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Vanessa Kellermann

Research fellow, Monash University

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Vanessa Macaulay

Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University
Vanessa is an artist scholar, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice. Vanessa's research specialises in Black feminist performance practices in the UK and US from the 1980s to the current day. Her research uses both practice-based and written approaches to challenge the imbalances of intersectional identities, speaking to contemporary struggles and anxieties about the performing Black body.

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Vanessa Mardirossian

PhD Candidate and educator in sustainable fashion, Concordia University
I hold a Fashion Design Bachelor from Paris (1992-1996) and a Master of Arts in Textile Design from London (1996-1998). With over two decades of experience in the European and Canadian fashion industry, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to my current role as a PhD Candidate in the School of Graduate Studies at Concordia University (INDI program, 2017-2024). My research, centered around Textile Ecoliteracy, bridges the realms of Design, Environmental Health, and Ecology, with a specific focus on sustainable dyes. I am committed to developing a macro vision for the fashion industry that aligns with ecological principles. In addition to my research, I contribute to the next generation of designers as a Textile Design Instructor at Ecole Supérieure de Mode ESG UQAM.

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Vanessa McBride

Astronomer, International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development

Dr McBride is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development. She works towards bridging the gap between the community of professional astronomers and the development world with a view to helping astronomers apply their skills to problems related to socioeconomic development. She is also an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town where she works on observations of massive stars in binaries.

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Vanessa Moulton

Senior Research Associate, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
Vanessa is a researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), focusing on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course. Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies. She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life-course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.

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Vanessa Napaltjari Davis

Researcher, Tangentyere Research Hub, Australian National University

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Vanessa Smer-Barreto

Research Fellow, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
Vanessa is a cross-disciplinary post-doctoral fellow supported funded by the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh; she graduated in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in Astronomy. Vanessa's research interests include cellular senescence, senolytics discovery for anticancer therapy, and genotype-phenotype interactions using machine/deep learning methods. She works in collaboration with JC Acosta's and Neil Carragher's labs at the Institute of Genetic and Molecular Medicine. In her spare time she likes to dance, skate, and read.

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Vanessa Tyson

Assistant Professor of Politics, Scripps College

Tyson’s first book manuscript Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House (under contract with Oxford University Press) explores structural inequality in the United States and how members of Congress have formed multiracial coalitions as a strategy to provide for their diverse constituencies. Having worked on political campaigns since she was 12 years old, she carefully considers how political dynamics affect policy formulation and consequent outcomes. Tyson also spent years working as an advocate for sexual violence awareness and prevention.

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Vania Andreoli

PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia
Vania is originally from Italy, where she completed her Master's in Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Turin. She became fascinated with the ocean since moving to Australia in 2013. Vania’s interests lie in the interrelations between the ocean and human health, in particular the global issues of food and nutrient security. She is exploring the challenges that compromise the role of wild capture fisheries in providing a secure source of food and nutrients, such as fisheries subsidies, overfishing and international trade. Vania wants to impact policy by providing information on how to make the ocean a more equitable place for all.

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